No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Localities Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Localities
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Localities I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Localities
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Localities "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Localities
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Localities "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Localities
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Localities Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Localities
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Localities Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Localities
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Localities
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Localities I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Localities
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Localities Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Localities
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Localities Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Localities
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Localities What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Localities
